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Static Website
S3 bucket served via CloudFront CDN. No servers. Globally distributed.
What you can build with this
Host a static website, single-page app (React/Vue/Angular), or documentation site. Visitors are served from a CloudFront edge location — the template uses PriceClass_100 (North America + Europe edges), so visitors in those regions get the fastest responses; visitors elsewhere are served from the nearest NA/EU edge. You upload files to S3 and CloudFront handles the rest.
Deployment timing
After you run the deploy command, resources come online at different times. Check the validation steps in order.
| Resource | Ready in |
|---|---|
| S3 Bucket | Ready during stack deploy (1–2 min in) |
| CloudFront Distribution created | 2–3 min (when stack reaches CREATE_COMPLETE) |
| CloudFront fully propagated globally | 5–15 min after CREATE_COMPLETE |
| Cache invalidation | 1–2 min after you create it |
| Custom domain DNS | 5–30 min after Route53 record is saved |
DNS / Certificate note: ACM certificates for CloudFront must be requested in us-east-1, even if your users or other resources are in another region. After creating the Route53 alias record, allow 5–30 minutes for DNS to propagate. Your CloudFront URL works immediately — the custom domain takes longer.
CloudFormation parameters
These are the values you will fill in when deploying the exported template. Changing these does not break the template — that is the point.
| Parameter | What to provide | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Environment | Environment tag applied to resources (does not rename them) | dev |